Hey, it’s Brady,

Five people complained about our music being too loud. In a single Sunday.

Now if you serve in church, specifically on sound, you already know this feeling. And it's never just one email, right? Somehow it's the email, plus the lobby conversation, plus the elder who pulls you aside, plus your spouse who heard something from someone at small group.

And so what do we do?

Maybe you buy a decibel reader. Maybe you put a limit on the board. And then three weeks later, someone else complains.

We decided to do something different.

We took every page of sound data our monitoring system had logged since September — 18,000 pages of it — and did an exhaustive, comprehensive audit of it. And what we found didn't just answer the question. It changed how we think about sound entirely.

Today I'm going to show you exactly what we did, the three metrics that actually matter, including the one I had never even heard of before, and how you can build the same system in about an hour.

We even built a free Sound Monitoring Guide you can install at your church.

Watch the full guide here.

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Get our list here.

Thanks as always for your time, attention, and trust. Talk to you next Thursday. - Brady Shearer